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Pyrolocutus posted:The thing that gets me is that it's a complete 180 from what the Confederacy was actually predicated on. I mean, you look at the personal and public writings of high-ranking Confederates, the establishing documents of the Confederacy, and the revisions that states made to their constitutions when they joined the Confederacy, and it's bluntly obvious that the Confederacy was established in great part due to being butthurt over not being able to utilize slaves in their rear end-backwards economic system. Then in WWX, you got them going "oh, totally our bad dudes, now we're all about free men and being plucky rebels against the authoritarian Union!" At best, it's a bad attempt to make a faction more palatable to the average game, at worst it's apologism and/or whitewashing. It's a weird kind of revisionism that's prominent across the whole spectrum of film and television, and it's an attempt to obliterate the economic dimension of the Civil War. Even relatively "progressive" films frequently eschew showing or commenting on the labour relation between a master and a slave in favor of cartoonishly villainous plantation owners who apparently kept slaves around so they could be mean to them. Adolph Reed, Jr. has a nice article regarding this.
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